Past Weevil Workers Meetings
Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2021
October 22-23, 2021
Starting at 18:00 UTC
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Organizers
Jennifer C. Girón
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, USA
&
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Maria Lourdes Chamorro
USDA - ARS - Systematic Entomology Laboratory
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Moderators
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Salvatore Anzaldo
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Lourdes Chamorro
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Systematic Entomology Laboratory
c/o National Museum of Natural History
Washington, D.C., USA
Bruno de Medeiros
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Panamá City, Panamá
Natasha Young
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Technical Lead
Jennifer C. Girón
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, USA
&
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Presentations were prerecorded, with English subtitles. Some presentations are available via our YouTube channel.
The link to join the meeting via zoom will be sent
a few hours before the meeting to the email address provided at registration.
a few hours before the meeting to the email address provided at registration.
Friday, October 22, 2021
UTC
Session I - Moderators: Bruno de Medeiros & M. Lourdes Chamorro
18:00 Introductory Remarks (R. S. Anderson, M. L. Chamorro, J. Girón)
18:15 Massimo Meregalli & Roman Borovec
Feeling like Schönherr in the XXI Century: new tribes, new genera, hundreds of new weevil species from South Africa
https://youtu.be/HUsI6CTcepw
18:30 Julien Haran, Laure Benoit, Laurence Ollivier & Gaël Kergoat
On the origin of the super-diversity of weevils: the case of sister-species sympatry in a palm-pollinator mutualistic system
https://youtu.be/3GsWu5tDlUE
18:45 Matt Van Dam
How the Easter Egg Weevils Got Their Spots: Phylogenomics Reveals Müllerian Mimicry in Pachyrhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae).
https://youtu.be/Nw8Bw6cxSkM
19:00 Sarah Smith & Anthony Cognato
New exotic beetles found in the United States among pseudocryptic Cyclorhipidion species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)
19:15 Samanta Orellana
Diversity and Systematics of Central American Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
https://youtu.be/7H84Io2lWyA
19:30 Break Break out rooms available
Session II - Moderators: M. Lourdes Chamorro & Bruno de Medeiros
19:45 Sal Anzaldo
Avocado Weevil ID: an upcoming suite of tools for identifying weevils associated with Persea americana Mill.
20:00 Anthony Cognato, Rachel Osborn & Sarah Smith
Xenoxylebora, new genus, has a trans-Atlantic species distribution
20:15 Bruno de Medeiros
Taming the beast: how did Anchylorhynchus weevils become palm brood pollinators?
20:30 Aline de Oliveira Lira
Neotropical Eugnomini in Cecropia flowers: a widespread but understudied association
https://youtu.be/ZExz6FWFgGw
20:45 Samuel Brown
Updates from New Zealand
21:00 Yun Hsiao
Systematics and Evolution of Australian Cycad-associated Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae): Current and Future
21:15 Social Break out rooms by taxa
Saturday, October 23, 2021
UTC
Session III - Moderators: Natasha Young & Salvatore Anzaldo
18:00 Laibale Friedman
The weevil research in the Holy Land
https://youtu.be/eNmBIv7xeGg
18:15 Roberto Caldara & Michael Kostal
A revision of the Cionini from the world: suggested relationships between different faunas and with other tribes of Curculioninae
https://youtu.be/RScvwQtjYSw
18:30 Alexander Riedel
Biogeography of Sulawesi, Celeuthetini, Trigonopterus, and some words on ancient DNA
18:45 Boris Korotyaev
The distribution of the weevil genera Orobitis Germ. and Parorobitis Korotyaev et al. is similar to that of the passerine birds’ subfamilies Fringillinae Leach and Euphoniinae Cabanis
https://youtu.be/_4YiUvg0HWI
19:00 Manuel Barrios
The Cryptorhynchinae of Guatemala
https://youtu.be/nZrGckOLz0U
19:15 Alex Van Dam
Integrative Taxonomy Training at the UPRM Invertebrate Collection: Blind Weevils, Genomes and Pinned Weevil Metagenomics
19:30 Break Break out rooms available
Session IV - Moderators: Salvatore Anzaldo & Natasha Young
19:45 Adaiane Catarina Marcondes Jacobina
Morphology and phylogeny, will we be able to define the Leptoschoinina?
https://youtu.be/1_CVqxjhr-w
20:00 Hermes Escalona & Rolf Oberprieler
Volcanoes, caves and weevils in the Australian outback
https://youtu.be/OWbGbCzl5Bw
Collection tours
20:20 Laibale Friedman
The tour in the National Entomological Collection, the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
20:30 Max Barclay
Natural History Museum, London
20:45 Alex van Dam
A Tour of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Invertebrate Collection
20:55 Matt Van Dam
Weevils at the California Academy of Sciences
21:10 Manuel Barrios
The Weevil Collection of Zacapa
Announcements
21:20 Lourdes Chamorro Weevil Forum & Safari, Western Cape, South Africa, October 2022
Bruno de Medeiros Weevil Forum, Brazil, 2024
21:35 Social Break out rooms by biogeographic region
Optional Weevil Meeting Cocktail Recipes
See no weevil
Ingredients
In a shaker add:
4 parts Stoli vanilla
2 1/2 parts count Creme de Cacao
Splash of vanilla coconut simple syrup (to taste)
1 part Half & Half
Instructions
Shake and pour over ice. Sprinkle with cottonesque toasted coconut and dust with cinnammon.
Description
"The people of Enterprise didn’t just overcome pestilence — they were thankful for it. It all began in 1915, back then everyone in town grew cotton. That is until the bowl weevil showed up, the evil insect had just destroyed Mexico’s cotton crop. Now it was happy to chow down on Alabama’s. Enterprise farms were wiped out. That is until a local named H. M. Sessions did some research and learned the area was great for farming — peanuts. The first crop hit it off big time.
Soon other enterprising Enterprisers switched to peanuts too. Eventually the weevils moved on to wider, fluffier pastures. But the pest had taught the locals the value of diversifying their crops. So in December 1919, they erected a monument to the boll weevil honoring it as quote, “a Herald of prosperity.”
The monument looks kind of like the Statue of Liberty but instead of a torch — she’s holding a giant weevil. It’s not the original monument. Some teenage boys ripped
the weevil off that one — along with both the statue’s arms."
Recipe from The dinner party download. Photo credit: Elana Lepkowski, stirandstrain.comCustom cocktail courtesy of Wes Fraser
Mississippi Planter's Punch
Ingredients
1 tablespoon sugar
1 lemon–juice only
1/2 jigger rum
1/2 jigger Bourbon whiskey
1 jigger cognac brandy
Instructions
Dissolve the sugar with a little water in a mixing glass. Add the lemon juice, then the rum, Bourbon, and brandy. Fill with fine ice, clap on the shaker, and go to work. When well frappéd pour into a long thin glass. Decorate with fruit and serve with a straw (option).
Description
"If this cooler doesn't make a Mississippi cotton plant forget about the boll weevil, charbon, and high water, give up trying to make [them] forget. All that is lacking in the recipe is a shady gallery, a rocking chair, and palmetto fan.
Recipe from 1938 Famous New Orleans drinks and how to mix them. Photo: garden andgun.com